lots of things happening though:
.Recording in progress for a solo CD on C.I.P. should be dropping around the end of March 2012
.I just finished recording & mastering The Subtraction’s new CS for Land of Decay
.There’s talk of a J. Soliday solo CS on Baked Tapes sometime in 2012
.Working on a couple recording projects with Michael Esposito, including a piece titled “The Many Ghosts of Edgar Poe” with Chris Connelly, Leif Elggren, and CM von Hausswolff that will be released on Firework Edition at some point
.I’ll be hosting a show on numbers.fm starting in 2012. tentatively titled “cracked like knuckles, but not as precious” (yeah, recycling an old track title there). The format is going to be loose, but expect me to be scouring the contents of my hard drives & record collection for just about everything under the sun. You can certainly expect a bunch of noise, metal, and other weirdness though… both my own work and the work of others… and don’t expect any of it to be treated as sacred, if you saw my DJ set at Gli.tc/h this year you’ll have a good idea of where I’m going with this. Details & showtimes TBA.
.Numbers.fm will also be broadcasting Enemy shows, either in real time, or as recorded re-broadcasts at a later time depending on scheduling conflicts with other numbers.fm shows.
.Plans are in the works to upload several of my out of print recordings to bandcamp in the near future. I’ll hopefully have some things available there by the end of the year.
.An as yet unnamed band has been rehearsing over at Superior Street with Geoff Guy (Animal Law, Gays In The Millitary) on guitar, Philip Montoro (Lozenge, Brilliant Pebbles) on drums, and myself on bass.
.Wyatt Howland (Skingraft) and I are working on a double cassette release for Anabolic Dimensions. One solo side from each of us, and another two sides of us playing together. Start bugging Howland about this one. That guy is slower than I am!
.I’m re-mastering Twig Harper’s Music for Higher Dimensional Consciousness for reissue on Somnimage.
I’m probably forgetting something, but that’s more than enough for now…
12.05.11 – Ratatosk | Regresssion | Drainolith
12.09.11 – Headboggle | Dog Lady | J. Soliday | Brett Naucke | jonCates
12.11.11 – Dog Lady | The Subtraction | ASY
all three both of them at Enemy
Recordings from my set on My Castle of Quiet are up on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:
An Epic Soundtrack; J. Soliday live on My Castle of Quiet, 7.1.2011
Thanks again to William Berger for having me on his show, and to Bob Bellerue for engineering!
Hemiptera at Red Light District July 1st, 2011 from Crank Satori on Vimeo.
Hemiptera summoning the insects in the RLD backyard.
Giddy as a little kid at my chance to visit Wm. Berger’s house of horrors known as My Castle of Quiet! William has an amazing show going over there at WFMU, and if I didn’t know better I’d think he’d put the whole thing together just to appeal to my tastes, noise, black metal, horror soundtracks, kosmische electronics…
I’m going to quote Mr. Berger’s write up about my appearance here, because it’s a hell of a lot better than what I would have written about myself:
“One might be tempted to refer to Chicago musician Jason Soliday as a “real electronicist,” inasmuch as his staggering and prolific talent bears out evidence of a driven and unstoppable artist, with more projects and side projects than one has appendages. Hell, the guy has a project called “I <3 Presets,” he’s won Wm. Berger over already. Wm. first heard Jason’s music through their mutual friend Steve Witchbeam, and sometime later through a collaborative mini CD between OPPONENTS’ Joshua Slusher and Winters in Osaka, another of Jason’s (or J.’s) impressive branches of activity. So, he’s had one degree of separation from the My Castle of Quiet show for a long time, and a live, on-air visit was more than simply inevitable, much closer to “pre-ordained by the gods.” Sonically, Soliday is a pro, his recordings and style melding apocalyptic pounding and drone with multiple, sudden bursts of concréte-style collage and psyche-clearing power electronics, without the messy “I had a bad day” vocals that often tether such a journey to the solid ground. Visit Jason’s site for a lot more info. His latest full-length work, Shivering Disorganizer, on a par in both complexity and power with his many other releases, is available for free download at Soliday’s soundcloud page. Jason’s Castle visit comes at the end of a round of NY-area appearances, including the Ende Tymes Festival at Silent Barn (6/26) and Port d’Or (6/29.)”
My appearance on My Castle of Quiet is Friday, July 1st from Midnight – 3am on WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm wfmu.org
(thats Thursday June 30th starting at 11 pm for my Midwestern associates)
June 29th, 2011
JASON SOLIDAY
MAGIC IS KUNTMASTER
VICTOR NEWMAN
ISA
+ DJ TBA!
PORT D’OR
841 Sterling Place
Brooklyn, NY
9PM
$5
I’m performing on the 26th
More Info: http://halfnormal.com/endetymes/
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Jason Soliday & Camilla Ha (Bizarre vocal + electronics duo Feat. Chicago sound master Jason Soliday)
De Trop (Hellish yet delicate modular/electronics band Feat. members of York Factory Complaint)
Hemiptera ( Insect worship from numerous household heroes)
Red Light District
1034 bay 25th street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
8 PM
$5
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Bran(…)Pos
Robert Turman
Startless
J. Soliday
9pm
Donations please
Robinwood Concert House
http://toledobellows.wordpress.com/
2564 Robinwood ave.
Toledo, OH